One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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In love there is but little rest.
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